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  • (the latter also known as remontants), bloom from new canes; while the rugosa, the Austrian, Harrison's yellow, sweet briers, and some others are bushes and do not renew themselves each year from the crown or bases of the canes.

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

  • At the South the remontants and other deciduous roses do not do as well as farther North.

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

  • Certainly, not like those glorious but blazing remontants, nor yet like the shy, delicate, ethereal tea-roses with their tender suggestions of color.

    Helen's Babies John Habberton 1881

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